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,Plow.

Patented June 28,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IETER KESSLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,576, dated June 28,1881.

Application filed May 2, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER KEssLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in plows; and it consists in theconstruction of parts hereinafter specified and claimed.

In the drawings, Figurel is aside view, the location of the cap andcolter being denoted by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is'a side view as seen whenthe cap and colter and share are removed. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of thecap and colter separate from the plow. Fig. 5 is an under-side view ofthe complete metal parts as seen from the side opposite that shown inFigs. 1 and 2.

The letter A designates the mold-hoard B, the standard to which the beamis attached; 0, the foot of the plow to which the share D, the cap E,and the colter E are attached. F designates the landside. 1

This improvement relates particularly to such plows as employ areversible share and point in one piece, and the object of theimprovement is to provide such construction in a plow as to admit of theuse of reversible combined shares and points of difl'erent lengths.

Heretofore in plows employing combined shares and points adapted to bereversed, the reversed point has usually been bedded in a socket formedat the base of the mold-board or foot. Such arrangement practicallypermits of but one size of share and point, since if either the share orthe point be any longer than the given size the point will not enter thesaid socket.

My invention in part is to overcome this difliculty.

At the lower forward part of the mold-board, adjoining the foot, thelatter is recessed, as at G, to receive the cap, so that the lower line,g, of the mold-board and the upper edge, h, of

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the cap may coincide, and the outer side of these two partsat their saidline of coincidence orjoinder may present a smooth and evencurvedsurface.

At what may be termed the heel part of the mold-board, being that partnext to which the rear end, 2', of the cap comes, an angular cutaway,la, is formed, one edge, 70', of the cutaway constituting a line whichextends about parallel with the adjacent edge of the reversed point D;The location of this edge k determines the minimum limit or smallestsize reversible combined share and point which can be used, while ashare of a size as much larger may be used as the dimensions of thecut-away from the edge 70 to the lower curved line of th e mold-boardwill afford room. The reversed end of the point, it will be seen inFigs. 1 and 5, projects through the cut-away entirely below themold-board, in which position it is no impediment to the draft.

The foot of the plow has a sort of raised panel, a, and one side of theshare has a corresponding-shaped sunk panel which sets down over theformer. This device serves to locate the position of the share andpoint.

' The cap and colter are integral, being cast in one piece, Wherebyisavoided the objectionable seam at that point, and the objection ofbolt-holes through such a small and exposed casting as the colter also,by the-parts being in one piece, the surface is readily made to form aregular curve (see Fig. 4) from the cuttingedge of the colter to theheel of the cap, which is a great advantage over that construction whichembodies a colter separate from the cap, and wherein an angulardepression or dishing place is formed on the surface at the point ofjoinder of colter and cap,as in the Wiley plow.

I am aware that reversible combined shares and points have been shownwith a triangular-' desire to secure by Letters Patentof the UnitedStates The combination of a mold-board having a out-away at the heelpart extending from the lower curved line of the mold-board inward,

v and a reversible combined share and point the reversed end of whichenters the out-away, whereby reversible combined parts may have

